Hey there, I've moved my blog to http://assortedtrails.com. I'll not be posting here anymore.

You know those days when you feel like doing absolutely nothing? Today's mine. Actually its a little more specific, I don't feel like doing anything "new". It feels like when I wasn't looking, somebody took the fruit of my creative energy and dropped it through a 1000 watt furnace. Status now? Completely dried ( Read more... )

Long back in college, I found a love of reading essays. The intrest was kindled by the discovery, in the college library, of a collection of essays by William Hazlitt. I'd never been exposed to such brilliant writing before, and I was hooked to the book. I couldn't read all of it, but whatever I read was enough to spark my interest into reading ( Read more... )

Loss is a peculiar feeling ( Read more... )

I'd watched Finding Forrester a few days back. Its an amazing movie, and some of the scenes are really touching.
It seems I am not alone in this. This guy's compiled and put the entire transcript for the movie here
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/finding-forrester-script-transcript.html

This is my favorite dialogue from the movie. The ( Read more... )

At lunch today, I was talking to one of my friends about....hmm...well...damn, let me backtrack a bit.
At lunch today, I was talking to one of my friends. And she was telling me about this guy who is extremely talented and has started a very successful company, and who is just 21 years old. And just then, right there, it struck me like lightning. ( Read more... )

One of my properties is that I am an emotional wreck most of the times. I have to always come up with new ideas to keep me in a sane state of mind. I had one this morning, and I'd share it just in case it helps you as well. It might be a bit disturbing, but well, that depends on how you look at it. One thing though: when I say imagine, try to ( Read more... )

I've always had a peculiar relationship with languages. You might say they excite me as much as beautiful women. Now lest you think that's a hopelessly abstract metaphor, let me show you exactly what I mean. This might be carrying the little analogy too far, but bear with me as I present : “programming languages I've dated” to date.

C was ( Read more... )

It's good to have conviction. Let me make that clear from the begining ( Read more... )

I know, that's a horrible name for a post, but there is no set agenda behind this one: I just wanted to write.

I'll be living in an empty house from today onwards, both housemates left today. Let's see how it turns up(I have a hidden fear that's not very enjoyable)

The new laptop is working fine. Oh yeah, I bought a new laptop. Its a compaq presario ( Read more... )